Michael Byrne
Acting
Byrne was born in London, England. He has sometimes been cast in Nazimilitary roles such as Colonel Vogel in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Major Schroeder in Force 10 from Navarone, Reinhard Beck in The Scarlet and the Black, General Olbricht in The Plot to Kill Hitler and Obergruppenführer Odilo Globocnik in the BBC radio dramatisation of the novel Fatherland by Robert Harris. Also seen as the aged but fanatical SS General Neurath in "Outpost 2 - Black Sun", former concentration camp commandant and involved in the Nazis's sinister reality-shifting experiments. Byrne appeared as a Jewish concentration camp survivor who is instrumental in the capture of a Nazi war criminal (played by Ian McKellen) in the film Apt Pupil. He is also familiar to audiences as Smythe, a soldier who attempts to rape William Wallace's wife and first inspires Wallace to seek independence from England in the film Braveheart. His other film credits include The Eagle Has Landed, A Bridge Too Far, The Medusa Touch, The Saint, Tomorrow Never Dies, The Good Father, The Sum of All Fears, Gangs of New York and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. On television, he has appeared in Z-Cars, Secret Army, Tales of the Unexpected, The Professionals, The Devil's Crown,Smiley's People, Yes, Prime Minister, Lord Mountbatten - the Last Viceroy, Between The Lines, Sharpe, The Mists of Avalon, Waking the Dead, The Body Farm, Honest, Hamish Macbeth, and Casualty. From April 2008 to January 2010, Michael starred in Coronation Street, as Ted Page, Gail Platt's long lost father and the ex-lover of Audrey Roberts. It is not known whether he will return to the show. Byrne appeared in State of Play at the Edinburgh Festival written by Zia Trench. He played Romeo to Siân Phillips' Juliet at the Bristol Old Vic. Father of actress Allie Byrne.
The Gold Machine
Andrew Norton
Intrigo: Samaria
Commissioner Keller
Alien Overlords
Michael
Intrigo: Death of an Author
Keller
The Last Witness
Coroner
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
Sir Charles Harwood
Mortdecai
The Duke
Rom - Schlacht der Gladiatoren
The First Line
Richard
Diana
Christiaan Barnard
Quartet
Frank White
Outpost: Black Sun
Neurath
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Gellert Grindelwald
Blood: The Last Vampire
Elder
The Mark of Cain
Lieut General Strathairn
Beyond the Sea
Dr. Andretti
The Return of the Dancing Master
Emil Wetterstedt
The Crooked Man
Archie Saunders
Gangs of New York
Horace Greeley
The Sum of All Fears
Anatoli Grushkov
Sunday
Lord Widgery
The Musketeer
Treville, Head of the Musketeers
Proof of Life
Lord Luthan
Battlefield Earth
Parson Staffer
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
Mr. Carruthers
Apt Pupil
Ben Kramer
30 Years to Life
Oliver Mather
Hornblower: The Even Chance
Captain Keene
Imogen's Face
Patrick
Gunshy
Lange
Tomorrow Never Dies
HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
Sharpe: The Legend
Nairn
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Venables
The Island on Bird Street
Bolek
The Saint
Vereshagin
The Fix
Sam Campbell
The Infiltrator
Dieter Creutz
Braveheart
Smythe
Nostradamus
Inquisitor
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
Blank/German/Old Geezer
Sharpe's Honour
Major Nairn
Sharpe's Enemy
Major Nairn
Sharpe's Company
Major Nairn
Hildegard
Volmar
Running Late
Clitheroe
Murderous Decisions
Octave
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Friedrich Olbricht
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Vogel
Buster
Poyser
The Happy Valley
John Carberry
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Chorus
The Good Father
Leonard Scruby
In the Secret State
Guy Preger
Champions
Richard Hussey
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Antonio
The Scarlet and the Black
Reinhard Beck
The Tragedy of Richard III
Duke of Buckingham
Henry VI Part 3
Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
Henry VI Part 2
John Hume / Lieutenant
Henry VI Part 1
Duke of Alencon
Man and Superman
Henry Straker
The Search for Alexander the Great
Demosthenes
The Silence of the Sea
Werner Von Ebrennac
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
Ratrick Marney
Coming Out
Gunnar Wedelman
Force 10 from Navarone
Schroeder
The Medusa Touch
Duff
A Bridge Too Far
Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
The Eagle Has Landed
Karl
Rogue Male
Interrogator
The Omen
Monk (uncredited)
Break In
Clarke
Conduct Unbecoming
2nd Lt. Toby Strang
Wednesday Love
Bruce
If It's a Man – Hang Up!
Richard Lovell
Vampyres
Playboy
Headmaster
Butley
Reg Nuttall
Ms or Jill and Jack
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Edward Seymour
The Image
The Artist
Much Ado About Nothing
Claudio
The Silent Playground
Roger
The Scarlet Blade
Lt. Hawke